Empress Maria Theresa's Daughters, Part 2

Maria Theresa was one of the most powerful women in history. She reformed and modernized her empire all while having 16 children, 11 of whom were daughters, all named Maria. While the boys were educated to be world leaders the girls were taught to be good consorts and obedient wives though they often choose not to be. 5 died tragically young, two rested power from their husbands and ruled states, three became great patrons of the arts and one, Marie Antionette became Queen of France and lost her head in the revolution.
In this episode:
Maria Carolina
Maria Johanna Gabriela
Maria Josepha
Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Sicily
Maria Antonia, Queen of France

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[brunobucciarati]

Im so glad you released this! As a teacher I’m looking for more ways to teach my World History Students and these videos are just magnificent 😍 !

[Miabia]

"bruh my wife/husband is UGLY" *Proceeds to have 18 children together*

[twilight-princess]

I always felt so sorry for Maria Josepha...her worst nightmare was dying of smallpox and that nightmare became reality.

[jenniferbrewer]

In all fairness, Queen Marie Antoinette wasn't doing anything different than any other French royal of the period. They ALL lived lavishly and spent ridiculously.

[SomePerson_Online]

9:13 wait till you hear her real story, about her life in France, she’s really the saddest of them all

Marie’s Last Words: “Pardonnez-moi monsieur, je ne le pensais pas” which translate to “Pardon me sir, I did not mean it” because she stepped on the executioners foot on accident

[rachel_sj]

I remember reading Marie Antoinette’s The Royal Diaries when I was a tween and getting a stark look at just how much growing up princesses had to do at my age. Reading both her diary, and Anastasia Romanov’s, even though fictionalized in their entries, was a great look at how similar yet different girls like me were in history, even though they were royal. As an adult, I’ve kept up my teenage curiosity and I love biographies like these who bring strong women’s stories to life!

[ScarletASV]

I believe Marie Antoinette was a victim of circumstance and her times. Married off at 14-15 and sent away from her family to a place a lot different than she was used to, forced to leave all her possessions from Austria at the border (she couldn't even keep a ribbon of her clothes), to a court full of scheming evil people, a quite indifferent husband (who wasn't to blame either, a shy guy married to a stranger at 15-16), etc. Of course she reacted badly to it. Gambling, games, shows, balls and clothes were a distraction for an 18 year old who lacked affection since she was still a child. Yes, it was her fault that she didn't kind of smarten up with time, but also what happens to us as children repercutes in adulthood and not everyone handles it well. Then the sexist mentality that if you're not pregnant you're not a real woman, you must seduce your husband, it's your fault not the man's, but if you are pregnant it better be a boy, all of this while still being a teenager. As if being 20yo and a virgin was a crime. The gossip and hearsay and all made it so easy to tarnish her reputation without her having a clue, and when she knew she maybe thought it wasn't that bad. Calling a woman a whore is the easiest path, unfortunately. Also, some people just aren't cut to rule, or even to more common things like academics. Then when everything started to go down, she was just a woman scared for her children and stripped down to nothing. I love her and her story, because it is so sad and unfair. And not because she was a rich woman who lost her fortune, but because she was used and abused since childhood in the plots of everyone else, and went down in history as an evil queen who didn't care.

[shewannabanghim]

Marie Antoinette faught guards who tried to take her son SHE IS BADASS SIS

[Patrick]

How UGLY are king Ferdinand and his father??

[jaredmn]

How many close relatives did you marry?
Habsburgs: yes

[malthesse]

To quote Oscar Wilde: "To the thinker, the most tragic fact in the whole of the French Revolution is not that Marie Antoinette was killed for being a queen, but that the starved peasant of the Vendée voluntarily went out to die for the hideous cause of feudalism." The revolution was ultimately a good thing. It got rid of the horrible, oppressive and cruel system of aristocratic rule, ushered in the modern age in Europe, and paved way for the ideas of democracy, liberalism and socialism. That said, even if she wasn't completely innocent, I do think that it was wrong to execute Marie Antoinette - and it really only made the autocratic monarchs around Europe even more intent on crushing the revolution, which in turn turned the much needed revolution turn into the horrible Reign of Terror under Robespierre.

[viviennebieri]

Napoleon invading a country:
Oh, another one of those sisters!

[cephalopuppy]

Him: “She sleeps like the dead and sweats like a pig.”

Me: “oh no it me”

[Mean_Jean]

Finally, I'm stuck indoors and I need all the enrichment I can get

[alazyartist]

I kinda feel bad for Louis and Marie Antoinnette. I feel they really wanted to make it up to the people but didn't know how. Though that doesnt mean that spending all of Frances money was justified but they really just felt like kids in powerful posicions.

[sabrinabagnarol]

Marie Antoinette's last words were Pardon me sir, I didn't mean to do it. She accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot

[adelept]

Maria Carolina is so underrated everyone talks about how Maria Theresa had 16 children when she had 18 and no ones talking about her

[ashleyt]

Fun fact: One of the main reasons the French did not like Louis is because he did not have a mistress

[coasterhockygamingboy]

Fun fact: when i was reading a book about mozart, when he was 7 years old, he went to Vienna to meet the empress and perform in front of her, then he met Marie Antoinette and he asked to marry her and the entire crowd was dying of laughter as she was engaged to Louis XVI (I don’t know the exact roman numerals of his title)

[wilfordfraser]

How does a couple not attracted to each other manage to produce 18 children??